While it’s okay to disagree with people, and it’s okay to seek guidance on how to deal with people that you disagree with… I think this former chaplain has the wrong answer. He invokes a prayer circle to make Mikey Weinstein and Rev. Barry Lynn’s lives worse off, and shorter. He literally wants them to [Read More...]

Melodysheep is the creative force behind the Symphony of Science series of music videos. This time around, he weaves beautiful and poetic statements about the universe together with the philosophic implications of our new insights. As usual, he uses the voices and words of famous modern scientists with clever auto-tune manipulation and catchy electronic music to [Read More...]

Margaret Downey has had a prolific career in secular activism. She has founded, been a board member of, or presided over many of the most influential secular organizations. I’m always curious as to what exactly leads a person towards activism, and there are as many reasons as there are activists. I found this quote quite telling: “I was quite [Read More...]

Recently, we added Jen McCreight to our lineup of speakers. She is a rising star in the secular and science online communities. That’s been changing this year, though. She has been appearing in print and on TV, and is a welcome addition to the long list of important female non-theists. As with all of our [Read More...]

Michael Werner is a Vietnam Veteran who was drafted just a year before he would have completed his Ph.D. He served with pride, and began a lifelong journey towards Humanism. His thirst for knowledge lead his academic studies through philosophy, world religion,and he was able to actually use what he learned to solve his major [Read More...]

Rock Beyond Belief is proud to announce that Eugenie Scott will be speaking at our festival. Eugenie Scott is probably most well known for being the executive director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). That organization emerged from the grass roots efforts against “equal time for creationism” legislation which sprang up in the late [Read More...]

Melodysheep is the creative force behind the Symphony of Science series of music videos. This time around, he makes the case for going to Mars. As usual, he uses the voices and words of famous modern scientists with clever auto-tune manipulation and catchy electronic music to spectacular effect. He writes: “The Case for Mars” is [Read More...]

Last week, anti-folk hero Jeffrey Lewis announced his tentative appearance at Rock Beyond Belief. We are proud to have such a talented singer/songwriter come out and play a set for us. Maybe you haven’t heard of him, or maybe you only heard of him via association with Kimya Dawson (the musician behind the Juno soundtrack, [Read More...]

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